New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for end to end-to-end encryption

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for end to end-to-end encryption

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/31/home_sec_priti_patel_five_eyes_encryption_controversy/

Newly assigned UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has declared war on encryption safeguards, demanding they be torn up for the convenience of police workers.

Patel, the social conservative appointed Home Secretary by Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week, used this morning's Daily Telegraph to call for end-to-end encryption to be broken with backdoors inserted for illicit law enforcement access.